Comment by fpig
8 years ago
I'm not sure what your beef with Windows as a client OS is but if you're saying that the UI should be dumbed down, remember how the attempt to do so with Win8 backfired and that Microsoft quickly reverted most of those changes in Win8.1.
As the older generation is dying off / retiring, the percentage of people who have been using a computer for a long time has increased immensely, the "secretary who can't figure out copy/paste" issue is becoming less relevant every day. These days the only people I need to help do basic tasks in Windows are my retired parents.
I don't see how an iOS-like UI would be an improvement for virtually anything I can imagine doing on a Windows PC.
Increasingly, I'm having trouble with interns who don't know basic computer interface paradigms because they've never used real desktop operating systems, just a ton of phones and tablets.
They know how to send me screenshots taken with their smartphones.
> the "secretary who can't figure out copy/paste" issue is becoming less relevant every day.
Well, yeah, since the non-executive secretaries have been replaced by Office and network drives, essentially.
I didn’t say “make iOS”.
What I’m saying is that an operating environment built around Office and its functions would be more useful than the cruft built around Windows that is mostly redundant.
Windows is a boat anchor on Office.
Why would an OS built around Office be more useful than Windows 10 is currently?
If Microsoft released an update tomorrow that made it into an OS based around Office the user base would riot. "How to prevent windows from updating" would become the most popular google search in history overnight.